iPad without a camera is widely criticized by the media, but recently, a new framework of iPad with the reserved camera position came out.

It is said that the there is a pre-camera on the iPhone OS firmware, compared to the previous framework, this new framework is changed slight. The reserved “Home” button can still indicates that is an iPad framework.

There are more evidence shows that iPad camera has undergone several design considerations, so it will be release when all the software and applications are mature.

Lenovo announced today start shipping two version Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 which are mainly for th edomestic market, all models are pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 comes with 2.13GHz Core i3 and the 2.4GHz Core i5 two kinds of processors, standard 14-inch display, dual-layer DVD burner, 4GB RAM, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, and 1.3 million pixel camera.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 price of 999 U.S. dollars that has i3 processor, 5400RPM hard drive, integrated graphics version, while the upgrade to a 2.4GHz Core i5, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650, and 500GB hard drive will have to price of 1199 U.S. dollars.

There is also a 15-inch Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 release plan, but the details still unknown.

Lenovo yesterday announced that it will release a new series of ThinkPads, in these versions, they include W series and slim ThinkPad X201, and moreover, it is possible that the tablet laptops may also be released too.

These New laptops will be equipped with Intel 2010 chip, Core i3, i5, i7. There will be improved greatly not only their energy conservation and efficiency.

Lenovo will Announce New ThinkPad Laptops on February 23^rd, so you can have a look on that day.

Laptop is not a cheap investment, if you want to expand the lifespan of your laptop, follow the tips below:

Clean your laptop regularly, including the cool fan and heat sink, keyboard and LCD screen.

Use a surge protector. An electrical surge may not affect your laptop during the first time, but over time it will destroy it!

Buy good qualities carrying case, which will prevent your laptop from scratching. Although we are very careful, dropping and bumping a laptop is common.

Use a security cable, connecting the laptop from the Universal Security Slot to a strong immovable and unbreakable object to deter the casual thief.

Keep your purchase receipt. Send it to repair if there is something wrong with your laptop as long as it is in the guarantee period.

Do not drink liquids near your laptop. Spilling liquid into your laptop may cost you a lot, but not only a cup of coffee or green tea.

Do not leave your laptop on soft surfaces, which will block the air vents and overheat your system.

Do not leave your laptop in cold environment, which may shorten your laptop life.

Do not use your laptop for a long time. You may use the desktop for a whole day, but laptop needs rest. You’d better stop it when it continually works for four hours.  

Do not disassemble your laptop unless you are a qualified professional. You may disassemble it easily, but hard to get it back. Send it to the professional repair store.

There is a special smartbook of Lenovo: Lenovo Skylight. They will be on the U.S. market on April with the price of 499 dollars.

Lenovo Skylight is at the dimension of 9.9 x 7.7 x 0.74 in, and it is at the weight of less than 2 lbs.

Lenovo Skylight comes with mini-HDMI output, SD card slot, two USB ports; moreover, the there is a built-pluggable USB flash drive with 4GB/8GB, which also allows users to plug their own hard disk. Below the USB flash drive; there is a microSD card slot and a SIM card slot.

As the Lenovo Skylight is handled by Linux operating system, so Lenovo Skylight smartbook can work with six panels at the same time; below it, there are shortcuts for software, which allows users to adjust it optionally. Lenovo Skylight now may just support web browse, leave messages on the Twitter and some operations which are available on netbook.

We are glad with the keyboard of Lenovo Skylight, it comes with a chiclet keyboard, while, the multitouch touchpad is improved to some extent.

We also will be surprised by Lenovo Skylight’s battery life; Lenovo boasts the battery of Lenovo Skylight can last more than 12 hours.

With such lots functions of Lenovo Skylight, it will stands out now and then, just waiting for it.

Do you want to have a unique laptop? Are you interested in new laptop? Lenovo has announced an innovative laptop which can be use as a regular laptop as well as a slate smartbook: Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. The screen Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid can be separated from the laptop as another smartbook. There is no doubt that you will be attracted by this Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid laptop.

The outlook of  IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is will also interesting you. It comes with a rounded and red shimmery coat which make it looks nice and fashion.

IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is equipped with 11.6-inch multi-touch screen at the resolution of 1366×768 pixels and a chiclet-style keyboard, rubberized palmrest and an integrated touchpad.

When IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is be used as a regular laptop, it weighs about 1.7kg. IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is handled by an Intel CULV processor and a 128GB SSD running Windows 7 Home Premium. Besides, IdeaPad U1 Hybrid can run about 6 hours.

The screen on the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid can be pulled out. The slate itself is a touchscreen version of the Skylight smartbook: it runs the same Skylight OS on a similar Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. And it just weighs less than 1kg.

When IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is used as a regular laptop, it supports not only 4GB DDR3 memory (the tablet itself supports 512 MB memory) but also a 128 GB SSD hard drive (the tablet smartbook supports 16 GB SSD hard drive). At the same time, the U1 Hybrid also comes with various interfaces; there are 2 USB ports, USB / e-SATA port, headphone jack, microphone jack, Ethernet (RJ-45), VGA and HDMI port, 4-in-1 card reader (Multi-Media Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Secure Digital Card). What’s more, you can expect it with Wi-Fi wireless networking, 3G as well as Bluetooth functions.

you may be excited about this good new, while the price of this Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is expensive, it will be available in the price of $999, there is no doubt that you will get a laptop as well as a smartbook with just $999.

Do you really think about your old batteries are useless when you throw out them? Do you have opinions that you may have broken laws if you do? Do you want to know how to recycle or safely treat and dispose for these old batteries? The solutions we recommend are as follows:

Battery Type: Alkaline (non-Mercury)

Common Name(s): Alkaline, Coppertop

Sizes: AAA, AA, C, D, 6V, 9V

Examples of Use: Flashlights, calculators, toys, clocks, smoke alarms, and remote controls.

Disposal classification: The federal government has classified these batteries as non-hazardous waste.

Proper Disposal: Place in the trash (normal municipal waste). Exceptions: California, which requires non-households to dispose of these batteries in accordance with the California Universal Waste Rules. Also, Minnesota (Hennepin County only) requires these batteries be disposed as a hazardous waste.

Battery Type: Button

Common Name(s): Alkaline, Lithium, Mercuric Oxide, Silver Oxide, Zinc-Air

Sizes: Sizes vary

Examples of Use: Watches, hearing aids, toys, greeting cards, and remote controls.

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Household Hazardous Waste Collection Site

Battery Type: Carbon Zinc (non-Mercury)

Common Name(s): Classic, Heavy Duty, General Purpose, All Purpose, Power Cell

Sizes: AAA, AA, C, D, 6V, 9V

Examples of Use: Flashlights, calculators, toys, clocks, smoke alarms, remote controls, transistor radios, and garage door openers.

Disposal classification: The federal government has classified these batteries as non-hazardous waste.

Proper Disposal: Place in the trash (normal municipal waste).

Exceptions: California- requires non-households to dispose of these batteries in accordance with the California Universal Waste Rules. Minnesota (Hennepin County only)- requires these batteries be disposed as a hazardous waste.

Battery Type: Lithium

Common Name(s): Lithium, Lithium Ion, Li-Ion

Sizes: Sizes vary

Examples of Use: Laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, camcorders, mp3 players

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Recycled

Battery Type: Nickel-Cadmium (Rechargeable)

Common Name(s): Either unlabeled or labeled Ni-Cd

Sizes: Sizes vary

Examples of Use: Camcorders, power tools, two-way radios, cordless phones

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Recycled or Household Hazardous Waste Collection Site

Battery Type: Nickel Metal Hydride (Rechargeable)

Common Name(s): Either unlabeled or labeled Ni-MH or Ni-Hydride

Sizes: Sizes Vary

Examples of Use: Camcorders, power tools, two-way radios, cordless phones, AA rechargeable batteries

Disposal classification: The federal government has classified these batteries as non-hazardous waste.

Proper Disposal: Recycle or place in the trash (normal municipal waste). Exceptions: California- requires non-households to dispose of these batteries in accordance with the California Universal Waste Rules. Minnesota (Hennepin County only)- requires these batteries be disposed as a hazardous waste.

Battery Type: Sealed Lead Acid

Common Name(s):SLA

Sizes: 2V, 6V, 12V

Examples of Use: UPS Back-Up systems, wheel chairs, ATV’s, Jet Skis

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Recycled

Battery Type: Lead Acid (Wet cell)

Common Name(s): Automobile Battery

Sizes: 6V, 12V

Examples of Use: Automobiles

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Recycled. Stores that sell car batteries are required to accept up to 5 car batteries from 1 customer for no charge.

Battery Type: Mercury Oxide

Common Name(s):Mercury Oxide

Sizes: Mostly button. Sizes vary

Examples of Use: Watches, hearing aids, toys, greeting cards, remote controls

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Household Hazardous Waste Collection Site

Battery Type: Silver Oxide

Common Name(s): Silver Oxide

Sizes: Mostly button. Sizes vary

Examples of Use: Watches, hearing aids, toys, greeting cards, remote controls

Disposal classification: Hazardous Waste

Proper Disposal: Consumers are covered by the Household exemption under RCRA which allows for these batteries to be disposed of into the municipal waste stream. Non-Consumers must dispose of these batteries in full compliance with the hazardous waste rules. These batteries are also acceptable for recycling by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation’s (RBRC) Battery Recycling Program.

If you are buying a laptop, you have to be careful enough when you received it. In case receiving a laptop which is old or broken, there are some tips for you to avoid it.

One: check the package of your new laptop

When you get your new laptop, it is not so good that you can not wait to open the package. First of all, you have to check the box of new laptop.

1.    See if the seal is intact or not. Be careful for this as some dealers will imitate the seals of the manufactures illegally, so it is important for you to check if the seal is broken or not.

2.    If the box is be serious damaged, you can require for another new laptop. Because the laptop in the box may be damaged to some extent.

3.    To check if the model and specifications on the laptop box is as same as what you want to buy. If the model is exactly as same as that of you and you can not find the specifications on the box, it is also ok.

Two: look over new laptop carefully

1.    You have to look carefully if there is any dust on heat vent, keyboard, and the gap between keys.

2.    Then, you have to check if the ports on both sides of new notebook are plugged by some peripherals or have scratches on them; it means that this laptop is definitely used by someone.

3.    As we know, there is no fingerprints on new laptop, if you find fingerprints on the new laptop and you can make sure that the fingerprints is not yours. Maybe there is someone have opened the box before.

Three: inspect accessories

The number of accessories included in the box is listed on the box, for example, how many manuals, power codes are in the box, and there is mouse in the box or not. We need to check the number of accessories we received in the box in case that some accessory is forgot by manufactures.

Four: test new laptop with software such as Everest、HD Tune、NOKIA Monitortest.

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems.

EVEREST is a green software and without the need of upload. Double click it, you will find the detail of your laptop’s hardware. With it, you don’t worry about the tricks of some person.

As you know, if the dead pixels on the screen is less than 5 more or less is a qualified screen, and NOKIA Monitortest will tell you how many dead pixels on your screen.

When you are going to buy a new laptop, be careful for it in case of wasting money.

When you read this title, you may confuse that if Dell Studio 17 (1747) is exactly the Dell Studio 17 which is released in 2008? Are them same or not? The answer is not, Dell Studio 17 (1747), upgraded from Dell Studio 17, is with new design, latest processor and new speakers, new screen with 16:9 ratio.

Dell Studio 17 (1747)’s side profile is designed with wedge-shape, which makes the Dell Studio 17 (1747) looks a little slimmer, if taking out the battery, Dell Studio 17 is similar to the laptop of 15 inch.

Studio 17 (1747)’s cover has a good feedback, which is like somewhat rubbery texture, and is easier for users to grip. While, the rubbery texture cover is not so durable to some extent, so it is better for you to use it with more care, but, it doesn’t mean that the quality of the laptop cover is not good, if you try to press hard on the cover of Dell Studio 17 (1747), there is definitely no any influence on the screen.
The keyboard of Studio 17 (1747) is in black and the palmrest is in silver. The keyboard and palmrest of laptop both have a good performance of durability, what’s more, as you know, Dell Studio 17 (1747) is a glossy laptop, and so many people will worry that they will have to clean their laptop usually to keep it clean. But it has good news for you: Both finishes appear to resist light scratches, so there is no need to clean constantly.

Dell Studio 17 features a 17.3 inch screen with the resolution of 1600×900 pixels. Multitouch is spreading far and wide into the branches of commercial electronics, Dell, being one of the beneficiaries. Their new Studio 17 laptop has a multi-touch display. So you can enlarge the picture with your fingers. Furthermore, the Dell Studio 17 can be amusing specifically in horizontal viewing angles as well as vertical viewing angles. The horizontal viewing angles are up to about 80 degrees and the vertical viewing angles are about 15 to 20 degrees. So watching movies with your family or friends is a no bad choice.

On the bottom of Dell Studio 17 (1747), as you can see, Dell has taken replacement into consideration; there is a single hatch for you to easy upgrade. Open the hatch, you will find that there are two hard drive bays, three mini-PCIe slots, two memory slots. One hard drive bay, memory slot and two mini-PCIe slots are free now, which can be for good further use. However, the graphics and processors are required to disassemble the inside of the laptop to take them apart.

Dell Studio 17 (1747) has a perfect keyboard, it comes with a full size design and with a numeric keypad, and there is a large palmrest for you. There is no uncomfortable feeling and your wrist will get enough support from the large palmrest. The keyboard of new Studio 17 is gapless which will avoid the dust; the feedback of the keyboard is very good, it will make you feel like that you type on a desktop. There are also some shortcut keys for you to choose, with the keys of “F4 + F5”, you can adjust the brightness, and with “FN+F5”, you can refresh a webpage.

The touchpad is with some multitouch functions, you can expect it with two-finger scrolling, rotating, pinch zoom, and a three-fingered flick. As the touchpad is in matte finish, so you can use it with ease even though your hands are dry or moist.

The various features packed into the Dell Studio 17 (1747) laptop include an Intel Pentium Dual Core/Core 2 Duo processor option, 8 GB of RAM, 1 TB storage space, Blu-ray option and an option of either ATI or Intel graphics.

On the front side of Dell Studio 17 (1747), there is an indicator light.

front side of Dell Studio 17 (1747):indicator light

On the rear side of Studio 17 (1747), there is nothing but the heat vent.

rear side of Dell Studio 17 (1747): heat vent

On the left side of Dell Studio 17 (1747), there is eSATA/USB combo port, VGA, HDMI, ExpressCard/34 slot, headphone jack, USB port, LAN.

left side of Dell Studio 17 (1747):eSATA/USB combo port, VGA, HDMI, ExpressCard/34 slot, headphone jack, USB port, LAN.

On the right side of the Studio 17 (1747), there is SDHC-card reader, two USB ports, power jack, and power button.

right side of Dell Studio 17 (1747):SDHC-card reader, two USB ports, power jack, and power button.

Now we have a look of the performance for Dell Studio 17 (1747).

The test result of wPrime 32M for Dell Studio 17 (1747) (the lower the better).

The test result of PCMark 05 for Dell Studio 17 (1747)

The test result of 3DMark06 for Dell Studio 17 (1747)

Dell Studio 17 (1747) comes with 9-cell battery, which enhances its battery life. When we turn the brightness to its 70% level, and turn on Wi-Fi, browse web and so on, the battery can last for 4 hours and 19 minutes. The result is fairly good in the class of such a high-end notebook.

Now let us have a look of the Dell Studio 17 (1747)’s performance of heat.

As you can see, the following picture is the temperature (Fahrenheit) of Dell Studio 17 (1747) when it works.

This is the temperature of its keyboard.

This is the temperature of its bottom.